The Useless Character of Harry Potter
Josephine
josie421 at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 11 21:09:22 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 69582
Craig:
> I think that Harry would agree with you...yet everyone in the book
> tends to see things different. All the characters choose Harry to
> teach DA behind the other teachers backs...why, because he is the
> hero. He, in the end, is the one that has finished off all these
> situations they have been in. Who killed the basalisk, who won the
> triwizard tournement, who stoped LV from getting the SS, who fought
> LV after Cedric died, who has kept the Gryffindor Quidditch team
> winning, who was able to take the pain of Umbridges quill when
> everyone else wanted to run and tell the other teachers. Harry has
> a lot more character than you give him credit for, and I think will
> continue to develop even more as he goes along. No other character
> has had to deal with as much adversity as Harry has had too.
>
> Now if Harry would have been stuck living with the Dursleys then
> that would have made a useless character. Harry has achieved a lot
> of things in his life with the help of other people, but no hero
> ever does it alone.
>
>
Of course Harry is the hero. That's what I dislike about him. I never
like the heroes, that's just plain personal preference. I do not, and
have never, denied what young Potter has done.
J
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